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Legal lament: A report by a subcommittee of the Chicago...

February 26, 1995

Legal lament: A report by a subcommittee of the Chicago Bar Association charges Chicago-area law schools with direct and indirect forms of gender bias. "We found a dearth of women instructors in entry-level courses and women students feeling that their opinions are not valued as highly as their male classmates," says Illinois Appellate Court Justice Jill McNulty, who co-chaired the Gender Bias-Free Jurisprudence Subcommittee of the association's Alliance for Women. McNulty says that law schools have been receptive to the report by calling for meetings to address these concerns.